3 Stocks Hitting Low Notes

When a stock hits a fresh low, it can either signal a dirt cheap dream stock or a dreadful stock to avoid. Separating the wheat from the chaff is difficult, but finding well-run companies at bargain-basement prices is a great way to accumulate a fortune over the long-run.

With that in mind, we'll use the aggregate intelligence of the 110,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS to see what the community is saying about stocks hitting 52-week lows today. The community's approval (represented by four- and five-star ratings) could signal that further research is in order.

Here are three such stocks:

Company	Today's Low	Industry	CAPS Rating	Fools Saying Outperform	Research
DuPont (NYSE: DD)	$40.43	Chemicals	*****	994 of 1058	Research
AT&T (NYSE: T)	$31.51	Telecommunications	****	3431 of 3645	Research
MetLife (NYSE: MET)	$47.73	Insurance	****	468 of 490	Research

Source: Motley Fool CAPS, as of July 15, 2008.

Other five-star chemicals companies:

• Agrium (NYSE: AGU) -- up 128% in the past year
• Praxair (NYSE: PX) -- up 22% in the past year

Five-star telecommunications companies:

• America Movil (NYSE: AMX) -- stock price is 23.2% cheaper than last year
• Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (NYSE: MBT) -- up 9.6% in the past year

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